Kumara Pie

Ingredients

• Short pastry
• FILLING:
• 1 lge egg
• 1½ C kumara puree
• ¼ C sugar
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter or margarine (softened)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• pinch ground allspice
• pinch ground nutmeg

Method

Line a tart tray with short pastry and blind bake.

Put all filling ingredients in a food processor and blitz.

Pour into pastry case and bake for a further 45-55 minutes at 180ºC.

Serve in wedges with your favourite butterscotch sauce and a scoop of harakeke-seed ice-cream.